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We learned that Explorer uses the COM Surrogate as a sacrificial process when hosting thumbnail extraction plug-ins. A customer had a thumbnail extraction plug-in for which prepar Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250917-29/?p=111604
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One of the most popular posts on the /devops subreddit says, “After 24 years in IT, I’m done. I don’t want to debug another YAML file. This is not how I foresee spending my life.” DevOps can be frustrating, and the 3,000+ people who upvoted that post clearly agree. It doesn’t have to be this […] Link to article: …
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by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (recordscanner.com) If you’re like me, there’s at least one room in your home with an entire cabinet dedicated to your growing vinyl collection. At this point, you’ve probably heard that vinyl is making a comeback, it’s not just vintage anymo Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce that Visual Studio now supports MCP prompts, resources, and sampling (with even more coming soon!) to enhance your Copilot experience by bringing in more context from your engineering stack. These powerful new features unlock deeper integrations with your favorite tools and services, making …
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GitHub Copilot is transforming the way developers write code by acting as an intelligent coding agent directly in your editor. Whether you’re building ASP.NET web applications, working with C#, or reviewing code with your team, Copilot can help automate repetitive tasks, suggest entire functions, and streamline code …
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We’re excited to announce major improvements to DiskANN in SQL Server 2025 RC1, making vector search faster, more scalable, and more storage-efficient than ever before. ⚡ Significantly Faster Index Builds Building DiskANN indexes is now considerably faster, thanks to Link to article: …
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The MSSQL Extension for VS Code continues to evolve, delivering features that make SQL development more integrated, more consistent, and more developer-friendly. In version v1.36.0, we’re announci Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/vscode-mssql-fabric-copilot
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In the recent article, Building Isolated AI Code Environments with Cerebras and Docker Compose, our friends at Cerebras showcased how one can build a coding agent to use worlds fastest Cerebras’ AI inference API, Docker Compose, ADK-Python, and MCP servers. In this post, we’ll dive deeper into the underlying …
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IntelliJ IDEA has great support for debugging Java and Kotlin applications. But if you are building Spring Boot applications, you may want to access Spring components along with their metadata. That’s where the Spring Debugger plugin comes in. It makes life easier by letting you explore and use the entire Spring …
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We’re excited to kick off the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rider 2025.3! With the first preview build now available, you can try out the new features we’ve been working on and let us know what you think. Your feedback plays a vital role in shaping the final release. If you haven’t joined an EAP […] Link to article: …
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We’re happy to announce that the Early Access Program (EAP) has started for both ReSharper and .NET Tools 2025.3. The first preview build is now available, giving you an early opportunity to explore what’s coming in the next major release. Your feedback is essential in helping us polish these updates, so we’d love to …
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TL;DR Azure AI Foundry now lets you ingest data directly from Azure Blob Storage, ADLS Gen2, or Microsoft OneLake and create an Azure AI Search index in just one click. When you create an agent in Azure AI Foundry one of the most powerf Link to article: …
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Apollo Research and OpenAI developed evaluations for hidden misalignment (“scheming”) and found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests across frontier models. The team shared concrete examples and stress tests of an early method to reduce scheming. Link to article: …
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We are increasing the length of support offered for .NET Standard Term Support (STS) releases from 18 months to 24 months. This change is effective starting with .NET 9, which means .NET 9 will now reach end of support on November 10, 2026. There is no change for Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which will continue to …
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Starting from the 2025.3 release, DataGrip and other JetBrains IDEs with database support will stop using the term query console. From now on, we’ll use query file – because consoles were essentially files all along, and it’s time the UI reflected that. We’ve made the workflow simpler, more discoverable, and more …
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In this post, we dive into how Verisk Rating Insights, powered by Amazon Bedrock, large language models (LLM), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), is transforming the way customers interact with and access ISO ERC changes. Link to article: …
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In this post, we explore how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and Quora collaborated to build a unified wrapper API framework that dramatically accelerates the deployment of Amazon Bedrock FMs on Quora’s Poe system. We detail the technical architecture that bridges Poe’s event-driven ServerSentEvents protocol …
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We’re excited to share that the Azure Databases extension for Visual Studio Code is now officially rebranded as the Azure Cosmos DB extension! Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/introducing-the-new-vs-code-extension-for-azure-cosmos-db
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We hear you. And you’re right – the new quotas are a reduction from what you experienced. When we launched, we had little usage data for agentic experiences and no top‑up feature existed, so we set quotas much higher than the real cost of AI usage (tokens from providers) as a temporary measure. That felt […] Link to …
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Overview We are excited to announce Computer Use Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-computer-use-tool-preview-in-azure-ai-foundry-agent-service
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